Parenting For Success

5 Ways to Keep Your Cool When You’ve Had Enough

With summer fast approaching and many of our kids already out of school, it is hard not to think of the long stretches of hectic kid-drama that is sure to come. Here are some tips for keeping your cool when you’ve just had enough: • Count to ten, blow out the birthday cake candles, or [...]

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What Type of Parent Are You?

I have listened to many stories about when my parents were kids and all of the things they were allowed to do. I don’t let my kids do half of that stuff. At 6 and 3, I am still trailing behind them when they ride their bicycles in front of the house. I have heard [...]

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5 Ways to Build Your Kids’ Self-Confidence

Be present for your child Children need to feel as though they are loved unconditionally. It is not enough to simply be in the same room with your child; you must engage them in activity, use eye contact, and let them be the focus. It is often difficult to leave work at work, or not [...]

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Are Our Kids Dressing Too Sexy?

Back when I was a kid I lived in jeans, loose turtlenecks, and pigtails. Not tight jeans either, or jeggings, or anything remotely sexed up. Kids today, thanks to many retailers, are being exposed to sexualized clothing at a young age. Abercrombie and Fitch, in particular, has had a history of marketing sexualized clothing to [...]

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Should We Be Afraid of Our Children?

I recently read a snippet on Today.com about a man who was shot with a hunting arrow by his 15-year old daughter. The reason behind it? He took her cell phone away. Even more astonishing is that the girl denied her father access to the telephone so he could summon help and then she left [...]

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Preventing The Downward Spiral – 6 Steps for Parents of Teens

I read a blog that started off with Charlie Sheen, but gradually worked its way to more basic questions. How does a person reach this level of abuse (both to himself and to others) and attention-getting behaviors? What are the underlying causes? The author then asked, “How do you stand by as a parent and [...]

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When Your Teen Pushes Your Buttons – Communication Strategies for Parents

As a parent, you have spent many years nurturing and protecting your child. Now this child is a teenager and thinks she/he is an adult, and doesn’t hesitate to tell you so! (hot button) You may find yourself trying to impose your own logic and life experience. (hot button) You may feel the need to [...]

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Raising Successful Children – Why Talent Is NOT Enough

Here’s the question submitted to this blog that that I answer in this video: Hi [Mac], I have a daughter that of 4 that is hyper active, and everything you talk about [in your free report] she is already there. She is not afraid to speak her mind in a respectable way of course, she [...]

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5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do

After I published my list of 15 Projects That Build Confidence In Children (which included some fairly intense Projects), I thought I’d share this video that I found on TED called, 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do. It’s a much less intense video that my last article and contains some great suggestions. [...]

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Raising Successful Children To Think Right

I’m reading a great book right now called “Talent is Overrated“, by Geoff Colvin. The book is wonderful because it exposes the lie that talented people were born talented, and instead takes a deep, close look into the very different ways that successful people think about their life than mediocre people do. So of course [...]

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